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Early Weight Bearing on Supracondylar Distal Femur Fractures in Elderly Patients

NCT02475941 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2019-11-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators will be looking at geriatric distal femur fractures. The investigators will prospectively enroll these patients and allow patients to either weight bear as tolerated or limit their weight bearing post operatively. The investigators will evaluate functional outcomes.

Conditions

  • Distal Femur Fractures

Interventions

OTHER

Non Weight bearing

The design will be a surgeon based prospective cohort supported in the literature to answer research questions in which surgeons may have a preferred treatment type. Each surgeon will treat study subjects by his or her single chosen method (weight bearing as tolerated post operatively versus non weight bearing). The benefits of early weight bearing are accelerated functional recovery, increased independence, decreased impact on the family, increased psychological benefits, reduced use of healthcare resources, decreased need for family intervention, and family to take care of the patient.

OTHER

Early Weight Bearing

The design will be a surgeon based prospective cohort supported in the literature to answer research questions in which surgeons may have a preferred treatment type. Each surgeon will treat study subjects by his or her single chosen method (weight bearing as tolerated post operatively versus non weight bearing). The benefits of early weight bearing are accelerated functional recovery, increased independence, decreased impact on the family, increased psychological benefits, reduced use of healthcare resources, decreased need for family intervention, and family to take care of the patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Louis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Howard Place, MD · St. Louis University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
64 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-11
Primary Completion
2019-01-02
Completion
2019-09-27

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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